What the hell does heat have to do with stability?
I've been running AMD processors since the X2. And X4... and AMD FX-8370. All of which run 100% fine to this day. (Even though I've had more than 2 motherboards die in the last couple years, the same CPUs keeps running fine.)
My childhood friend ran an AMD Athlon 64 when they first came out.
I used an AMD K6-266 when I was a teenager, and have numerous 486's (and even a 586 IIRC) lying around that still run. I even have a fucking AMD 8088 in my Compaq "Portable" (36 LBS!) built in 1986.
And I'm not even a complete AMD fanboy. I'm a fanboy for my wallet. I've run nVidia videocards ever since 3DFX and my Voodoo 2 and 3 went tits up.
But as for unreliable, I have no fucking idea what you're talking about. And there are tons of hot Intel CPUs out there. Pentium 4 HT's ran at a whopping 110 Watts back in the year 2000. My FX-8370 runs at... 125 W. And the Core i7 3970X Extreme Edition runs at... 150W. Now, you can cite the FX-9570 at 220W but that was a joke CPU (Google: "outlier") using a dated architecture to keep a little trickle of money coming into AMD from die-hard enthusiasts. It cost over $100 more, and only got like 15% more throughput than my 8370, while consuming another 100 watts of power.
So yeah, AMD's typically run a little hotter because they have to make up for their worse fab technology (of which Intel a supreme leader). But as for super hot, or being unreliable... you better pull some citations out of your ass.
... crap. When they actually port over the WPF (windows presentation foundation) so you can actually make beautiful drag-and-drop GUI applications in Linux and Windows using Visual Studio.
Until they add GUI, there's no point. And they 99% likely know that already. Without GUI, userland Windows programs won't target also Linux. The benefit to Microsoft is mostly in their direction, and not Linux.
Although, do you have a source for that? Are you sure they weren't planning on releasing on PS4 and calling the game "finished" by that date? The game is already "beta" and barring a couple more maps and vaulting, it's basically finished--at least finished enough that you could call it finished.
If this factored into Player Unknown's Battlegrounds decision to go Xbox Exclusive instead of originally stating planned support both PS4 and Xbox support.
They said cross-platform play was important to them. (Of course being the #1 or #2 most popular selling game on Steam means they could probably get away with segmented players. However, maybe it's easier from a server standpoint with "one" codebase as far as server's clients go?)
The thing is, I thought PS4 had a larger market. Or perhaps Xbox has more "FPS" players?
Granted, a key factor is that Microsoft is "publishing" PUBG on Xbox which means they probably paid a CRAP TON of money to buy exclusive licensing for a year or more. But if you're making hundreds of millions, you'd be damn sure to consider all the factors. And my point is, I wonder if this story is one of those factors.
SaaS is a super dangerous concept that he majority of computer users have no idea of what's going to happen.
1 - Consolidation of services from standard capitalism. (I'm not arguing against capitalism.) As far as I can tell in my reading of history and experiences in life, all economies eventually end up as monopolies because users prefer simplicity.
2 - You don't own your products.
3 - What happens when the company goes out of business? We're basically banking our entire ownership of media on one thing. Either the owners of our current products will NEVER GO OUT OF BUSINESS (yeah, we're all using AOL--the last big tech company--right?) . Or 2), that somehow, through the "goodness of their hearts" all businesses will magically assume they might go out of business and have in their contract that your content must be transfered over. Except when they declare bankrupcy... what happens then? And what happens if people don't want to RUN the servers anymore? (Think of 90% of great FPS games from the 90's and 2000's that need dedicated, proprietary servers that were shut down.)
The ONLY thing that can save us is either moving away from SaaS, or, a law (good luck!) that stipulates that user content must be storable on the user's machine if no equivalent service is instantiated by the next company. And what if the next company has your stuff... but doesn't give a shit about your privacy and dumps adware into the old products? It's not like any company took someone else's products and bundled adware with it...::cough::sourceforge::cough::
We are heading for a disaster and nobody even realizes it. What happens when we hit the next major recession / tech bubble burst? It's not like we're living in an era of super-hyper-valuation of unicorn startups with no viable income strategy yet... Oh... shit.
While we're actually on the same side, I disagree with your logic:
Coke isn't trademarked. Cola isn't trademarked. COCA-COLA is.
So your argument isn't directly applicable to the discussion without some additional link from "part of a word" == "whole word." Nobody is arguing Microsoft owns "micro" or "soft." Then again, Microsoft HAS argued Lindows infringed on the Windows trademark.
Still use it. I could go on, but it feels like this Winamp story shows up a couple times a year.
It uses a tiny amount of RAM, a tiny amount of CPU, supports tons of plugins, global hotkeys, and more. I would "upgrade" but I've never actually seen a player that's an improvement. Why would I use a "newer" tool if the newer tool isn't functionally better than the old one? Playing an MP3 shouldn't take more than 16 MB of RAM or >0.0% CPU. End of story.
Thank God ONE software package hasn't become a bloated piece of crap that requires 15 seconds to load and 1 GB of RAM to load a freakin' word document.
I also think it's great when Microsoft disables rival anti-virus suites and internet browsers. They're a private company, and windows is THEIR platform.
Oh... now you look like an asshole. Damn. Want to reconsider?
What is it about software design that 99% of software user interfaces have zero actual thought put into THE USER USING THEM. (Including my !@$!ing new car's "smart" lcd radio.)
(Almost?) no other professional field could get away with such stupidity:
"Hey, I made this gun. It's awesome. Best gun ever. But we never actually tested someone firing the gun. It just sat and a test-stand the whole day. So when you go to fire it, the gases explode into your face and blind you."
"We think everyone is so fucking stupid that if they merely HEAR nazi slogans, they'll become nazis, so we have to hide it from their reach."
It's the same argument they used to try and tell us videogames and movie violence were rotting children's brains. It's also the same argument the right-wingers used in the 90's to try and ban porn, sex in movies, and sexual advertisements... and being gay.
But it's okay. Because nazis = bad, and precedents set today will never be used against a group I like tomorrow! It's not like Trump is using wire-tapping precedents set by Obama. Also, thanks to denial, I'll never die!
I've downloaded some of those old CDs from sites like that.
They're full to the brim with viruses, and, strangely, occasionally porn. Like, who puts porn PCX files in shareware games?
Fun sidestory: My wife woke me up one night at like 4 AM, "I found your PORN STASH", I get up, look at the her with her "I caught you" judging stare, and I look at the screen. Those PCX files from shareware. I point at the datestamp, "1994", and I go back to sleep.
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What the hell does heat have to do with stability?
I've been running AMD processors since the X2. And X4... and AMD FX-8370. All of which run 100% fine to this day. (Even though I've had more than 2 motherboards die in the last couple years, the same CPUs keeps running fine.)
My childhood friend ran an AMD Athlon 64 when they first came out.
I used an AMD K6-266 when I was a teenager, and have numerous 486's (and even a 586 IIRC) lying around that still run. I even have a fucking AMD 8088 in my Compaq "Portable" (36 LBS!) built in 1986.
And I'm not even a complete AMD fanboy. I'm a fanboy for my wallet. I've run nVidia videocards ever since 3DFX and my Voodoo 2 and 3 went tits up.
But as for unreliable, I have no fucking idea what you're talking about. And there are tons of hot Intel CPUs out there. Pentium 4 HT's ran at a whopping 110 Watts back in the year 2000. My FX-8370 runs at... 125 W. And the Core i7 3970X Extreme Edition runs at... 150W. Now, you can cite the FX-9570 at 220W but that was a joke CPU (Google: "outlier") using a dated architecture to keep a little trickle of money coming into AMD from die-hard enthusiasts. It cost over $100 more, and only got like 15% more throughput than my 8370, while consuming another 100 watts of power.
So yeah, AMD's typically run a little hotter because they have to make up for their worse fab technology (of which Intel a supreme leader). But as for super hot, or being unreliable... you better pull some citations out of your ass.
....all games you control with your mind.
Literally everything you and I are using to post on Slashdot and this trillion(?) dollar internet infrastructure was made without crowd-sourcing.
I think we'll be okay.
You realize the entire wing for emissions design was sectioned off and only accessible by top executives and people working on it. Right?
So management, by sectioning off their "illegal section" and keeping other employees from seeing it, is 100% DAMNING PROOF.
Ever notice how anything the CIA does post Trump is Trumps fault, but pre-Trump is never Obama's fault?
... crap. When they actually port over the WPF (windows presentation foundation) so you can actually make beautiful drag-and-drop GUI applications in Linux and Windows using Visual Studio.
Until they add GUI, there's no point. And they 99% likely know that already. Without GUI, userland Windows programs won't target also Linux. The benefit to Microsoft is mostly in their direction, and not Linux.
Thank you for your insight. That's pretty neat.
Although, do you have a source for that? Are you sure they weren't planning on releasing on PS4 and calling the game "finished" by that date? The game is already "beta" and barring a couple more maps and vaulting, it's basically finished--at least finished enough that you could call it finished.
Can't we make peace, not war?
If this factored into Player Unknown's Battlegrounds decision to go Xbox Exclusive instead of originally stating planned support both PS4 and Xbox support.
They said cross-platform play was important to them. (Of course being the #1 or #2 most popular selling game on Steam means they could probably get away with segmented players. However, maybe it's easier from a server standpoint with "one" codebase as far as server's clients go?)
The thing is, I thought PS4 had a larger market. Or perhaps Xbox has more "FPS" players?
Granted, a key factor is that Microsoft is "publishing" PUBG on Xbox which means they probably paid a CRAP TON of money to buy exclusive licensing for a year or more. But if you're making hundreds of millions, you'd be damn sure to consider all the factors. And my point is, I wonder if this story is one of those factors.
Ironically, they're extremely vocal about video games and movies yet they never buy or watch them...
SaaS is a super dangerous concept that he majority of computer users have no idea of what's going to happen.
1 - Consolidation of services from standard capitalism. (I'm not arguing against capitalism.) As far as I can tell in my reading of history and experiences in life, all economies eventually end up as monopolies because users prefer simplicity.
2 - You don't own your products.
3 - What happens when the company goes out of business? We're basically banking our entire ownership of media on one thing. Either the owners of our current products will NEVER GO OUT OF BUSINESS (yeah, we're all using AOL--the last big tech company--right?) . Or 2), that somehow, through the "goodness of their hearts" all businesses will magically assume they might go out of business and have in their contract that your content must be transfered over. Except when they declare bankrupcy... what happens then? And what happens if people don't want to RUN the servers anymore? (Think of 90% of great FPS games from the 90's and 2000's that need dedicated, proprietary servers that were shut down.)
The ONLY thing that can save us is either moving away from SaaS, or, a law (good luck!) that stipulates that user content must be storable on the user's machine if no equivalent service is instantiated by the next company. And what if the next company has your stuff... but doesn't give a shit about your privacy and dumps adware into the old products? It's not like any company took someone else's products and bundled adware with it... ::cough::sourceforge::cough::
We are heading for a disaster and nobody even realizes it. What happens when we hit the next major recession / tech bubble burst? It's not like we're living in an era of super-hyper-valuation of unicorn startups with no viable income strategy yet. .. Oh... shit.
Where we're going, humanity won't need eyes, either.
While we're actually on the same side, I disagree with your logic:
Coke isn't trademarked. Cola isn't trademarked. COCA-COLA is.
So your argument isn't directly applicable to the discussion without some additional link from "part of a word" == "whole word." Nobody is arguing Microsoft owns "micro" or "soft." Then again, Microsoft HAS argued Lindows infringed on the Windows trademark.
Still use it. I could go on, but it feels like this Winamp story shows up a couple times a year.
It uses a tiny amount of RAM, a tiny amount of CPU, supports tons of plugins, global hotkeys, and more. I would "upgrade" but I've never actually seen a player that's an improvement. Why would I use a "newer" tool if the newer tool isn't functionally better than the old one? Playing an MP3 shouldn't take more than 16 MB of RAM or >0.0% CPU. End of story.
Thank God ONE software package hasn't become a bloated piece of crap that requires 15 seconds to load and 1 GB of RAM to load a freakin' word document.
I also think it's great when Microsoft disables rival anti-virus suites and internet browsers. They're a private company, and windows is THEIR platform.
Oh... now you look like an asshole. Damn. Want to reconsider?
You guys always scream that same mantra. Except when it's swung against a liberal user. Then they're scumbag nazis.
People are getting bored of your lack of an actual high ground. I wonder why you lost the election.
What is it about software design that 99% of software user interfaces have zero actual thought put into THE USER USING THEM. (Including my !@$!ing new car's "smart" lcd radio.)
(Almost?) no other professional field could get away with such stupidity:
"Hey, I made this gun. It's awesome. Best gun ever. But we never actually tested someone firing the gun. It just sat and a test-stand the whole day. So when you go to fire it, the gases explode into your face and blind you."
I don't know what to think unless someone in corporate tells me. Please tell me what to think next.
2) Because movies are fantasy and nobody fantasizes about being an unattractive slob.
Why is nobody advocating for more smelly, greasey, fat men in movies? Because you can't frame it as a poor innocent child-women argument.
Basically, the entire argument from the left is:
"We think everyone is so fucking stupid that if they merely HEAR nazi slogans, they'll become nazis, so we have to hide it from their reach."
It's the same argument they used to try and tell us videogames and movie violence were rotting children's brains. It's also the same argument the right-wingers used in the 90's to try and ban porn, sex in movies, and sexual advertisements... and being gay.
But it's okay. Because nazis = bad, and precedents set today will never be used against a group I like tomorrow! It's not like Trump is using wire-tapping precedents set by Obama. Also, thanks to denial, I'll never die!
There's so much that can be gleaned from:
1 - Your choice of words. Not the message, but your actual choice of words.
2 - Your projection.
3 - Your use of anonymity.
Seems like people who know they're wrong will never dare confirm the facts.
Wow. Now imagine we called black people being discriminated against "black discontent."
Slashdot, your bias is leaking.
I've downloaded some of those old CDs from sites like that.
They're full to the brim with viruses, and, strangely, occasionally porn. Like, who puts porn PCX files in shareware games?
Fun sidestory: My wife woke me up one night at like 4 AM, "I found your PORN STASH", I get up, look at the her with her "I caught you" judging stare, and I look at the screen. Those PCX files from shareware. I point at the datestamp, "1994", and I go back to sleep.
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be described by rational self-interest.
Nobody wants those sites gone. They just worked on their own site so they could make money and everyone left.
Should be "When Richard Stallman tells you to do something: You install vim."